In the heart of inner city Cleveland, Coach Fred Wilson has dedicated himself to turning drug dealers and users into boxers, hoping to give them a positive outlook on life.
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FIGHTING BACK Cleveland’s Inner City Boxingphotographer |
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Occupy May Day 2012photographer |
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Facing Change documents May Day Occupy rallies and marches in New York, Washington DC, Chicago, and Oakland as tens of thousands of people took to the streets. |
Heavy Metal: America’s Tank Factoryphotographer |
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Lima, Ohio, is home to the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (Lima Army Tank Plant) which is the only heavy armored tank factory in the United States. They build and refurbish Abrams tanks, Stryker armored personnel carriers, and other weapons systems. |
Hour Children: I Needed Someone to Tell Me I Was a Good Girlphotographer |
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Brenda Ann Kenneally continues her work with Hour Children, a New York based not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization that assists incarcerated women by providing post-release services that prevent recidivism after their release. |
A Mother’s Fight Against Childhood Obesityphotographer |
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Sonya Branch-Johnson remembers a visit to her doctor and watched as he wrote “obese” on her chart. It was a wake-up call. One third of Americans are obese, a dramatic increase over the last twenty years. |
Occupy DC Eviction 2012photographer |
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Early Saturday morning in Washington DC, the police raided the OccupyDC encampment in McPherson Square, two blocks from the White House. |
Flat Liners: Life on Oakland Streets 2012photographer |
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Stanley Greene walked the streets of Oakland, California for nearly two weeks photographing the realities, the dramas, the desolation, and finding a sense of separateness. |
Last Days at the Western Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. 2012photographer |
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Brenda Ann Kenneally reveals a portrait of one of Old Las Vegas’ disappearing casinos through the stories of its last remaining patrons. It was a place where the faithful still came to suspend the long hours of their retirement inside deep pockets of hope and anticipation – the jackpot itself is another day done. Even though it was said that the Western still turned a profit, there was an uneasy feeling that the score would have to be settled soon for cheating time. The Western Hotel and Casino closed on January 16, 2012. |
Saving Cleveland 2012photographer |
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Once trapped in a predatory loan, activist Barbara Anderson teams up with Cleveland-based community action group, Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People (ESOP), to save thousands of homes and reinvent Cleveland’s fractured communities. A decade before the “Occupy” movement, they used controversial tactics to bring bank CEOs to the table and stop the predatory lending that decimated communities throughout the inner city. |
The Caucuses and the Circus 2012photographer |
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It’s long hours and stress, but I enjoy the theater and the quirky aspects in addition to the importance of covering the presidential election. I do want to demystify the political process with my photographs, to show what the process is like. It’s not all polish, and I like to travel around the edges. |
Facing Change: Documenting America 2011photographer |
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This week we present our final update for 2011, a suite of diverse images taken along our journeys this year on the American road. We feel that these photographs speak to the heart of this moment in our country. |
Life and Death Along the Mississippi 2011photographer |
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Along the Mississippi River, towns are dead. There used to be cotton, now there’s soybeans and corn as well. A long time ago, the jobs were horrible — low paid, seasonal – but now those jobs are gone. A mechanized combine replaces 22 workers. This summer, the levee broke when there was severe flooding. One unintended consequence was that people got temporary jobs removing the debris, burning trash, and re-farming the land. |
Migrant Workers 2011photographer |
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I remember being a kid and watching old black-and-white footage of migrant workers picking fruits and vegetables and working the fields. My parents always watched Spanish television, which covered many different aspects of Latin American life. One vivid news clip that I’ll never forget was of a migrant man who drowned trying to cross a river into the United States to make a better life for himself and his family. The history, literature and images of migrant workers have become part of our rich American history. |
A Future for Homeless Children 2011photographer |
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Homeless families are increasing at an alarming rate in the United States, with profound effects on millions of American children. One in fifty children experiences homelessness in America each year, according to a recent study by the National Center on Family Homelessness. Nearly half of those children are under the age of six – the most vulnerable group of all. |
Occupy Wall Street disrupts Wall Street 2011photographer |
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The New York Police Department and the “Occupy wall Street” protesters came face to face on Thursday morning engulfed in anger and frustrations as each represented a warring party entrenched in a long fought battle. |
Occupy Wall Street Eviction 2011photographer |
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Over the last two months, Occupy Wall Street spread across the nation as each new economic statistic grimly confirms the disparity between rich and poor continuing to grow while unemployment remains high and stagnant. The protesters were initially mocked and denigrated, but public outcry galvanized by pepper spray and mass arrest police tactics added to the persistence and popularity of the movement. The response from local governments has varied from city to city. In New York it was marked by heavy-handedness tempered with reluctant tolerance. |
Long Term Unemployed, 99ers 2011photographer |
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The unemployment crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that perhaps most jobless Americans are no longer receiving benefits. “Not since the Great Depression have so many Americans been unemployed for so long,” said John Dodds, the director of the Philadelphia Unemployment Project (PUP). |
Landscapes of American Historyphotographer |
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These images are the third, and final, set for FCDA from the self-titled ‘American History Series’. |
The Badlands of South Dakotaphotographer |
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The Badlands of South Dakota are one of the most economically depressed regions in the United States. Though surrounded by commonplace social strife as a result, rich traditional culture survives, since much of the Badlands are part of the Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota. Once led by the legendary war chief Crazy Horse, Pine Ridge is also where some 300 men, women, and children were slaughtered by the 7th Calvary at the Massacre of Wounded Knee in 1890, the tragic end to the Indian Wars. |
“Occupy Wall Street” – NYPD Confrontation in Times Square 2011photographer |
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“Occupy Wall Street” protesters stand-off with police on 46th and Broadway, as the mass of demonstrators closed down the street and sidewalk. |
Occupy Wall Street – the Growing Movement 2011photographer |
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As Occupy Wall Street” grows daily both nationally and internationally authorities’ patience with the protests is wearing thin. The New York movement narrowly avoid a police stand off on Friday morning but this was not the case in Denver. The hard question is what next? |
Occupy Wall Street 2011photographer |
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Occupy Wall Street is an ongoing series of demonstrations in New York City based in Zuccotti Park, formerly “Liberty Plaza Park”. The protest was originally called for by the Canadian activist group Adbusters; it took inspiration from the Arab Spring movement (particularly the Tahrir Square protests in Cairo, which initiated the 2011 Egyptian Revolution) and from the Spanish Indignants. |
10th Anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks on Americaphotographer |
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Ten years on, Americans will gather today where the World Trade Center soared, where the Pentagon stands as a fortress once breached, where United Airlines Flight 93 knifed into the earth. |
Losing A Generation “Too Young To Die” 2011photographer |
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A war is underway in the United States today, with the nation’s youth suffering its most devastating consequences. It is an undeclared war, but it is as real and savage as any of the wars that claim the lives of soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. The casualties of this war come from a thousand bloody battles being waged nightly on the neighborhood streets of cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, Memphis, and Los Angeles. |
Jobs Fair New York 2011photographer |
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Thousands of New Yorkers attend a job fair at the Manhattan Holiday Inn as a jobs report, issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed that unemployment went from 9.2 percent in June to 9.1 percent in July. |
Turmoil on Wall Street August 2011photographer |
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Renewed turmoil battered Asia and Europe, and Wall Street headed for new losses, in the face of rising concern over debt problems and the economy. |
Fourth of July by FCDA photographersphotographer |
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n 1775, people in New England began fighting the British for their independence. On July 2, 1776, the Congress secretly voted for independence from Great Britain. The Declaration of Independence was first published two days later on July 4, 1776. |
The Battle For Blair Mountain 2011photographer |
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Environmental activists opposed to mountain top removal lead a fifty mile march to Blair Mountain in an effort to stop plans to strip mine the area. The march route followed the same one taken ninety years ago, in 1921, when union coal miners attempting to rescue fellow workers who were being terrorized by company gun men, marched through the mountains of southern West Virginia. |
Memorial Day 2011photographer |
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Memorial Day Weekend from Coney Island and Prospect Park, Brooklyn to the thousands of Rolling Thunder Bikers packing the National Mall Facing Change photographers Lucian Perkins and Anthony Suau document the annual holiday. |
Ground Zero and the Killing of Osama Bin Ladenphotographer |
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More than 56 million Americans watched on live television as President Obama announced the killing of Osama Bin Laden by a commando raid in Pakistan. Within minutes, people started gathering at the World Trade Center site, Ground Zero. |
Rouge Plant Dearborn 2011photographer |
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Russia’s marquee billionaires invest to upgrade America’s steel industry. Today more then 10% of all US steel production is Russian owned. |
Louisiana – Debbie Fleming Cafferyphotographer |
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Debbie Fleming Caffery has been making photographs of the people and culture of her native Louisiana for over 30 years. |
Federal Shutdown Avoided 2011photographer |
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After weeks of contentious negotiations between the House and the Senate, a deal was reached to avert a shutdown of the Federal government within an hour of the midnight deadline on Friday April 8. |
An American Landscape: The 150th Anniversary of the Civil Warphotographer |
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An American Landscape: The 150th Anniversary of the Civil War On April 12th, 1861, the first shots of America’s Civil War were fired when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. 150 years is a lot of time, especially for a nation where many citizens’ grandparents had not even arrived yet. And then [...] |
Madison Protests 2011photographer |
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As the streets of Madison, Wisconsin and inside the capitol fill with protesters the country’s eyes are glued to the high emotions that started last Tuesday. |
Hour Working Women 2011photographer |
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Hour Children is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization that assists incarcerated women and continues to provide the crucial post-release services that prevent recidivism after their release. The organization’s holistic approach, providing services both inside and on the outside, is unique to Hour Children. |
The New Americans 2010 – 2011photographer |
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While the nation continues to focus on illegal immigration as a controversial political issue, every Friday in New York City alone, approximately five hundred citizens. |
A Detroit Requiem 2010photographer |
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Detroit … the word alone incites many emotions within America’s conscience. Detroit was the epicenter for economic equality in the U.S., the home front for the ideal of well paying jobs for the masses and a political force behind a strong middle class. |
Christmas in Central Texas 2010photographer |
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In December, I photographed the many ways that people decorate their lawns, fences and towns to celebrate the Christmas season. For some it’s a Santa Claus and reindeer; for others, it’s a wreath, a “Peace on Earth” sign, or fireworks; for others still, it’s angels or a crèche. All of this offers a hint to [...] |
Cleveland: Fighting Foreclosure Blightphotographer |
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Many American neighborhoods have foreclosed homes on their streets that are eyesores which either do not sell or are not kept up. In Cleveland, one judge is testing radical judicial tactics that could help change this. |
Florida Foreclosure Fraud Crisis 2010photographer |
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From the banks, to the lawyers, auction courts, and foreclosure forums Facing Change photographer Anthony Suau takes to the streets of Florida where homeowners are beginning to fight back in a system full of confusion that is rigged and riddled with fraud. |
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear 2010photographer |
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Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge crowd at the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and “Keep Fear Alive” to poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers. |
Moving America Forward 2010photographer |
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People attend a rally “Moving America Forward” for Democratic candidates as the November elections come to a close. President Barack Obama. |
Ruberts Family – Covington, Louisiana 2010photographer |
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When Angie Poole was a little girl growing up in Texas, every night before bedtime she would play dolls and blow air kisses good night through the phone to her mama. Angie’s mama was a cross country trucker and Angie’s kisses had to travel over miles of highway and dozens of dark truck stops to be heard. |
BP Gulf Oil Spill 2010photographer |
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My heart sank when BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil well burned and sank, unleashing the biggest oil spill in our country’s history. |
A trip through the Rust Belt 2010photographer |
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In the summer of 2010 I made a three week trip through the rust belt starting from New York City to Albany, Amsterdam, Rochester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Love Canal. |
Detroit – Food Bank 2010photographer |
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Once known as the world’s automotive center, Detroit was the home of 1.85 million people in the 1950s. Its population is now 951,000 and there are an estimated 80,000 abandoned buildings within the city. |
Obesity, Washington DC 2010photographer |
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My long-term project on obesity begins here in Washington DC, partly because a manipulation in the country’s original laws and institutions has contributed to the epidemic. |
September 11 and 12, 2010photographer |
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The ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, in Lower Manhattan. |
American History Project 2010photographer |
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I’m working on a series of landscape photographs that deal with American history. With a camera, I’m interested in exploring Americans’ relationship with their own history. |
Katrina Then And Now 2010photographer |
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Revisiting the same places in New Orleans, five years after the storm. So much remains to be rebuilt, yet that may never happen. |
Katrina Five Years 2010photographer |
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Stanley Greene returns to New Orleans for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. |
Arizona Immigration Bill 2010photographer |
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Controversy over the Arizona Immigration Bill, which would require police to determine the status of people they stopped and suspected were in the country illegally. |
US World of Finance 2010photographer |
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The US financial world is the market’s global hub. What happens on these streets effects not only the US economy, but nearly everyone on the planet. Largely responsible for the recent global financial crisis the US markets continue to swing widely, often at 100+ points a day, as uncertainty about a US or world recovery [...] |
Changing Landscapesphotographer |
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Remote Area Medical Serves a Rural Virginia Community 2010photographer |
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Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical, piloted his DC-3 into Wise, Virginia, to lead a free medical clinic supported by hundreds of volunteer doctors, dentist, nurses, students and other health professionals. Nearly 3,000 people showed up for medical needs at the three-day clinic. “I just look at these people and I hurt,” said volunteer [...] |
Combating Violence 2010photographer |
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Pastor Phil Jackson walks the streets with his young church members who volunteer to talk to teens and young men on the west side of Chicago. |
Workers Day March Turns Anti-Arizona Immigration Event 2010photographer |
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An annual Workers Day march in Chicago turned into an anti-Arizona event as participants railed against that state’s new immigration law. |
Detroit Auto Show 2010photographer |
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Following a disastrous year that saw GM and Chrysler LLC forced into government-led bankruptcy. U.S. auto sales plunged to 39 percent below a peak in 2005 during the recent ill-founded economic boom. The big, unanswered question here, however, is what the U.S. economy will do following its longest, deepest downturn since the 1930′s. |
Remote Area Medical Virginia 2009photographer |
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Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic serves thousands of patients in Virginia. |
Machine Gun Shoot 2009photographer |
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Twice a year nearly 16,000 people attend the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot and military gun show in Kentucky. It is the largest gathering of Civilian owned machine guns in the world. |
Chicago Housing Projects 2009photographer |
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In 2009 President Barack Obama allocated $13.6 billion to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for affordable housing and community development. |
Robeson High 50-50 2008photographer |
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Students at Robeson High live in one of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods, Englewood. It is also one of the poorest neighborhoods in the city with a median income of $18,955. |
Troy, New Yorkphotographer |
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Troy, New York Six-year-old Katie surveys her family’s possessions as the family prepares them for storage. Katie’s mom is a single parent and Katie, her sister and two brothers have moved four times in as many years, often living with relatives and friends in between apartments. |
Las Vegas Boom and Bustphotographer |
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Las Vegas, Nevada April 2008 Tourists decide where to go next on the Las Vegas Strip, famed for its hotels, casinos, and resorts. |
The Deep Southphotographer |
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Change comes slowly, or seemingly not at all in these overlooked communities. In much of the Deep South, history hangs heavy. |
Too Young to Diephotographer |
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Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Nearly seven years to the day that Fakhur Uddin came to America from Bangladesh, he was slain and found bound with duct tape and string, shot in the head, and left in the back room of the East Germantown gift and sundry store that he was minding for his ailing father. Here, [...] |
The Gulf Coastphotographer |
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New Orleans, Louisiana September 2005 Hurricane Katrina an Unnatural Disaster, Ninth Ward under water. |
Crystal’s Strugglephotographer |
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Washington, DC USA 1992 Born with a disease that destroyed her intestines, one-year-old Crystal needed a liver and intestine transplant in order to survive. But the operation would cost at least $500,000 and her insurance would not pay for it. As her mother, Bridgette, and doctors tried to find ways to pay for the operation, [...] |
Driftlessphotographer |
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South Dakota John Neumann spends the afternoon working on his pickup truck. Neumann, a horse and cattle rancher, endured eight-straight years of draught in southwestern South Dakota, only to be challenged by high fuel costs once the rainfall improved in 2008. |
Never Coming Homephotographer |
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Hughson, California March 22, 2006 A Marine honor guard practices carrying the casket before the military funeral of Bunny Long, who was killed in Anbar Province, Iraq, on March 10th, 2006. |
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